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Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (BWLD): Today's Featured Leisure Winner

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Buffalo Wild Wings (
BWLD) pushed the Leisure industry higher today making it today's featured leisure winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.5%. By the end of trading, Buffalo Wild Wings rose $1.21 (1.5%) to $83.70 on light volume. Throughout the day, 337,214 shares of Buffalo Wild Wings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 604,400 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $81.92-$83.82 after having opened the day at $82.39 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $82.49. Other companies within the Leisure industry that increased today were:
Caribou Coffee Company (
CBOU), up 6.5%,
PokerTek (
PTEK), up 5.3%,
Kona Grill (
KONA), up 4.2%, and
Rick's Cabaret International (
RICK), up 3.5%.

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Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. engages in the ownership, operation, and franchise of restaurants primarily in the United States. It offers chicken and various food and beverage items, as well as serves bottled beers, wines, and liquor. Buffalo Wild Wings has a market cap of $1.53 billion and is part of the
services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 28, equal to the average leisure industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 22.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Buffalo Wild Wings a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Buffalo Wild Wings as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.